La 4e de couv. indique : "Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript …
Prologue: The ghosts of slavery -- Introduction. Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830 -- Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858 -- Commodities…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Ghosts of Slavery -- Introduction: Moving Freedom, Shaping Slavery: Enslaved Women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- CHAPTER 1 Reproduction and Motherhood in Slavery, 1757-1830 -- CHAPTER 2 Beyond Charity: Petitions for Freedom …
Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and historical documents from a diversity of archives, Jess…